13-year-old Matt Allsup is into the Goth and emo look. Yesterday, he wore black eyeliner and lipstick to school, as always. But an administrator at Garfield Middle School in Ohio told him to take it off.
His mom, Mindy Ball, says this is sexual discrimination -- after all, they don't tell the girls to take their makeup off, so why should they tell her son to? Matt and Mindy are fighting the school district's makeup restrictions.
Do you think boys should be allowed to wear makeup at school?
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The needs to back down. The boy is doing nothing wrong. If he can’t wear make up to school neither should anyone else including the teachers
- Myra
I think the parents have bigger problems to worry about, than the school banning makeup for boys….yanno what I mean!?!?
- Anonymous
My daughter is goth/emo. Honestly if I let her walk out of the house wearing something it’s fine. I would think the school has bigger issues to attend to then what child is wearing make up. But of corse the over all solution will be no make up allowed at all for anyone. So much for teaching our kids that individuality is a good thing.
- Ki
That’s ridiculous. If they tell boys they can’t wear makeup, what’s next? Telling kids what they can and can’t eat? Telling the parents what the kids can and can’t eat? Absurd. Don’t they have better and more important things to do?
- Natalie
Can girls wear makeup to that school? If yes, you know the answer. I don’t remember schools being able to violate everyone’s civil rights while I was growing up. And everyone thinks we’re so liberal. Psssh.
- Lucy
If school policy prohibits “distracting makeup/hairstyles”, then the school is not at fault. Parents and their children need to realize that once a child walks onto a school campus, many of the freedoms they enjoy in the “outside world” are no longer available. School is already a turbulent enough time without having to sit next to a student that presents himself in such a manner. Even the most focused of students will have difficulty keeping their eyes from straying from their work and onto such an individual. The school has a responsibility to provide education, and to maintain an environment in which students can learn to the best of their ability. No child has the right interfere with that, just because he or she is “expressing their individuality”. Off campus or after school, when children are no longer being instructed, this young man can slap on all the eyeliner, lipstick, and hosiery he wants to. But he AND his mother are ignorant blowhards if they believe they can jeopardize the education of others JUST to make a statement.
- Rickey
typical schools trying to makepeople forced intodoing somthing they dont wanna do. as parents we have a responsability to get involved with our child if we have no problem on how the child looks or even acts they shouldnt have a problem if it was my kid id sue the school
- Steve
well boys like him can wher black goth and emo make up some schools dont like boys to wher make up and girls ppl like girls to wher make up. in my school no one is whering make up and i can’t wher any make up bit pink lip stick will be ok for girls and some school dont like any make up and black make up like goth and emo they dont like it
- blackcat
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